#v

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. ↗

— John Dyer

#canvas #directly #enjoy #fresh #i

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life. ↗

— John Dyer

#coast #consequently #cornwall #degree #deliberately

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love. ↗

— John Dyer

#bright #i #i love #love #optimistic

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#marry #tell #whom #you

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#by the time #changing #democracy #done #get

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#know #live #mean #perfect #perfect world

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect. ↗

— John Dyer

#artist #been #books #different #does

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#code #days #lines #most #productive

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing. ↗

— John Dyer

#across #all day #amusing #assume #day

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one. ↗

— John Dyer

#attractive #deadlines #freedom #landscape #lifestyle